Science Display Boards

by Sophia
For ten adventurous weeks, the Kawau Team worked harder than ever on some amazing science display boards. After weeks and weeks of work, everyone’s boards were starting to look marvellous.

There were six materials, that we could chose from to investigate for our presentations. These were: glass, plastic, rubber, paper, metal and fabric.

The boards were judged on a score out of 100. We had to create our own science experiment to test a poroperty of our chosen material. We have been learning science experiment skills this year in science.

We’ve have  done lots of exciting experiments such as a dry ice experiment. We also did another experiment with two types of sugars. Brown and Castor sugar. We lit both on fire and watched to see which one would burn faster and start to rise up.

Mitcham Primary School Visitor

Today a colleague of Miss Keightley ( a former Macleans teacher) visited Macleans Primary. This colleague was from Mitcham Primary School in Melbourne, Australia. Her name is Ms Pikia.

She visited us in the library and she was nice and friendly. She was looking around the school. She enjoyed looking at the Matariki art that is displayed in the library.

She took a long, tour around the school. She liked the colourful murals outside, as well as The Jumping Number Caterpillar. She got really interested in the MLE, and she spent a lot of time in there talking to students and teachers.

Ms Pikia enjoyed her visit to Macleans Primary.

She hopes to visit again.

St Johns Training

Donna from the St John’s charity came and taught students from the Kawau team about taking care of ourselves. Donna also taught us how to treat a person with heat stroke or hypothermia.

First we learned about minor wounds, stings and burns. Donna instructed us what to do when you get a minor wound. Donna immediately put us into groups and we cleaned and bandaged the different types of wounds that Donna had drawn on us with a red whiteboard marker.

After that we learned about burns and if  Donna drew a burn on our hands, we had to had to run it under cold water for 20 min(it was just a cup with no water) Next we covered it with glad wrap.Then we learned  about stings. Donna said the very first thing you have to do when you when you get a sting is ask the patient if they had got stung before. Next we had to pull it out as fast as we could with a card or piece of paper. You can also do it with you nail. Later, we froze it with an icepack.